We are two months away from our next major update (v19.2). The purpose of this post is to share our progress and give XAF users the opportunity to test new functionality before we wrap up our current dev cycle. XAF is part of the Universal Subscription...

Thought I’d write a quick post to detail a few of the changes we’ve made to our XPO ORM Library in the v19.1 release cycle and a couple of changes we expect to make for our next major release (v19.2): LINQ to XPO, ORM Data Model Designer and news on our new XPO data sources....

To save time with functional XAF testing, check our Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code extensions for EasyTest files (*.etc, *.inc): syntax highlighting, collapsible regions, code snippets and more. In our opinion, functional and unit tests are a must for teams creating complex apps. We would appreciate your feedback here or in comments to this KB article....

Over the last few v18.2 minor releases we introduced several new features. Thanks to your feedback we have finished the major updates to the Actions documentation, this includes an overhaul to over a dozen Actions and UI elements articles, the documents have been enhanced with links, scenarios, examples, and illustrations....

We are finalizing our 2019 eXpressApp Framework (XAF) Roadmap. Your feedback will allow us to focus on features/capabilities that matter most. As always we welcome your comments and specific usage-scenarios, the more you share, the better we can understand your business needs now and into the future. ...

Thanks to great user feedback, we had a successful release with several major new features. In this post, I will highlight a number of smaller, but useful additions to our ORM and its associated learning materials....

To help you better manage build processes for your XAF projects and employ CI/CD tools approved within your Enterprise (such as Azure Pipelines), DevExpress Nuget now includes packages based on XAF assemblies.
As you may already know, we opted for both large metapackages (for instance, DevExpress.ExpressApp.Core.All, DevExpress.ExpressApp.Win.All, etc.) and small individual packages for each XAF module or assembly....

With our upcoming release, XAF users will get access to a much larger icon set from the DevExpress Image Gallery and new SVG images for use with XAF’s WinForms UI. To browse all new and previously available images, XAF’s Model Editor ships with a new Image Picker (used for both SVG and PNG image selection)...

One of our primary objectives in 2018 is to improve the appearance of XAF desktop apps on high resolution displays. To achieve this aim, we hope to redraw and replace all default XAF PNG icons with their SVG equivalents by the end of 2018. ...